The Federal Aviation Administration has added more space launch activity areas on pilot navigation charts. All FAA-licensed spaceports and launch and reentry sites on the charts are labeled with a rocket symbol. Marking additional space launch activity areas on the navigation charts promotes increased pilot safety and airspace awareness, the FAA said. These areas are […]
Susie Perez Quinn has been appointed the new NASA chief of staff. In her new role, Quinn will be in charge of the day-to-day operations of the NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. She will also help NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and senior NASA staff set the strategic direction of the space agency. She succeeds Bhavya […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has selected OneWeb, a low earth orbit satellite communications company, to demonstrate managed satellite communications services in the Arctic region. Under the terms of the contract, prime contractor Hughes Network Systems will test and implement end-to-end services on OneWeb’s system between U.S. Northern Command sites. Hughes, a satellite internet service […]
The Space Force is looking to expand its cyber workforce by recruiting more specialized cyber personnel from the U.S. Cyber Command and the Air Force. According to Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt, deputy commander of the Space Operations Command, discussions are underway to transfer USCYBERCOM and Air Force cyber specialists to the Space Force. Burt expects […]
Vanessa Wyche has been named acting director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. She succeeds Mark Geyer, who has decided to wrap up his three-year tenure as JSC director to focus on his health and family, NASA said Tuesday. As acting center director, she will provide oversight on various human spaceflight activities, including the development and […]
The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, a nonpartisan think tank, has urged the U.S. Space Force and the Intelligence Community to open up more business with the commercial space sector. Instead of relying on traditional acquisition models such as block-buys and multi-year contracts, the defense and intelligence communities should focus on […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is scheduled to enter a new operations demonstration phase to explore how aerial scouting can benefit future missions. On April 19, Ingenuity completed the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on another planet. The new demonstration phase will commence in about two weeks with the helicopter’s sixth flight, NASA said. […]
White House officials said that Vice President Kamala Harris will put her own “personal stamp” on the National Space Council that the Trump administration revived in June 2017. As the second incarnation of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, the NSC develops policies related to civil, commercial, national security and international space matters. Senior White […]
The Space Force has issued a $228 million extension to a GPS ground system development contract that it awarded to Raytheon Technologies. The contract extension requires Raytheon to upgrade the OCX ground system, which has been in development since 2012, to accommodate Lockheed Martin’s GPS 3F satellites, SpaceNews reported. As per Raytheon’s timetable, some OCX […]
LinQuest has been awarded a $31.68 million sole-source contract to support U.S. Space Command operations through April 2022. USSPACECOM is a Department of Defense unified combatant command responsible for military operations in outer space, including the employment of space forces provided by the military services. The contract calls for analyses, assessments and solutions that can […]
